ICE agents face obstruction from California medical staff while arresting illegal immigrant | Fox News
By: Greg Norman (Fox News)
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California medical center staff attempt to block ICE agents from making arrest
Staff at the Ontario Advanced Surgery Center were captured on video on Tuesday, July 8, 2025, attempting to block ICE officers from making an arrest. (Credit: Inland Coalition for Immigrant Justice/AP)
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Staff at a California surgical center were captured on video trying to block Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents from arresting a Honduran landscaper this week, with one telling a federal officer "you don't even have a warrant for him."
The tense scene unfolded Tuesday at the Ontario Advanced Surgery Center, located about 30 miles east of Los Angeles.
"Get your hands off of him," one staff member in blue scrubs is heard saying, shielding the man from an immigration agent. "Let him go. You need to get out."
The Department of Homeland Security said on X that ICE officers "conducted a targeted enforcement operation to arrest two illegal aliens" and "Officers in clearly marked ICE bulletproof vests approached the illegal alien targets as they exited a vehicle."
IMMIGRATION OPERATION AT CALIFORNIA CANNIBIS FARMS LEADS TO CLASH BETWEEN FEDERAL AGENTS AND PROTESTERS
A staff member is seen trying to get in the way of an ICE agent attempting to arrest a Honduran landscaper at the Ontario Advanced Surgery Center in California on Tuesday, July 8.(Inland Coalition for Immigrant Justice/AP)
"One of the illegal aliens, Denis Guillen-Solis who is from Honduras, fled on foot to evade law enforcement. He ended up near the Ontario Advanced Surgical Center where hospital staff assaulted law enforcement and drug the officer and illegal alien into the facility," it added.
"Then, the staff attempted to obstruct the arrest by locking the door, blocking law enforcement vehicles from moving, and even called the cops claiming there was a 'kidnapping,'" Homeland Security also said.
Javier Hernandez, executive director of the Inland Coalition for Immigrant Justice, told the Associated Press that agents eventually arrested the Honduran man following the struggle inside the clinic that was captured on video.
The Department of Homeland Security said "staff attempted to obstruct the arrest by locking the door, blocking law enforcement vehicles from moving, and even called the police claiming there was a 'kidnapping.'"(Inland Coalition for Immigrant Justice/AP)
Hernandez added that the man was sending money to Honduras to help his mother with her dialysis treatments.
The incident is one of the latest in a growing series of confrontations with federal immigration officers.
In another incident Tuesday, protesters were seen clashing with ICE agents wielding batons outside the San Francisco Immigration Court.
An ICE agent is seen trying to bring the immigrant into custody on Tuesday, July 8, 2025, in Ontario, Calif.(Inland Coalition for Immigrant Justice/AP)
Protesters also clashed with federal authorities Thursday during an immigration operation north of Los Angeles at a marijuana farm allegedly employing illegal immigrants.
Fox News Digital's Sarah Rumpf-Whitten, Louis Casiano and The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Greg Norman is a reporter at Fox News Digital.
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The ICE agents need to start arresting anyone who lays hands on them and prosecuting them to the fullest extent of the law, haul everyone of those clinic employees out in handcuffs. Remember, nobody is above the law.
yep. Only way to protect them from the escalating violence.
That is the only way it will stop. And I think it will stop quickly.
I agree. No one should be putting their hands on the ICE agents. They can peacefully protest, and they can even refuse to speak with them, ICE cannot force any US citizens to rat on undocumented immigrants, but they should never lay their hands on them. They should have simply stood still and raised their hands and let the ICE agents do their job.
The irony of this coming from a Trump supporter is truly comical.
And arrests for assault and obstruction should follow this incident. Remember - NOBODY IS ABOVE THE LAW.
Ice Ice baby!
To paraphrase one of our far leftist friends on here. ‘Maybe a couple of pieces of lead to the head will make them go away’.
What I don't understand is why California is receiving all the attention from the press. ICE raids are being conducted in Atlanta, Miami, New York City, and Chicago.
Is the press trying to coronate Gavin Newsom for the 2028 Democratic primaries? Are Democrats being played for fools just as happened with Hillary Clinton?
We know that the press trying to manipulate the 2016 election was a disaster for Democrats. The press tried to do the same thing with Ron DeSantis on the Republican side. How'd that turn out?